Boruto: Naruto next Generation Movie

chapter three

Chapter three: the Chuunin Exams A boulder was destroyed by a huge Rasengan.

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"Did you manage to create such a huge Rasengan in just one day?" Sasuke's words held a little disappointment in them, but Boruto didn't notice, too drunk on the power of the Gauntlet that Katasuke had given him.

The shells which were loaded inside the Gauntlet could fire the jutsu hidden inside them very simply. And the Rasengan was no exception. Of course, the Rasengan here wasn't made using Boruto's power. It was the power of the person who had made several Rasengan to help out with experiments, who didn't know what they would be used for..

it was Konohamaru's Rasengan. In short, Boruto was doing the same thing as handing in a test paper with someone else's work on it. However, right now, for Boruto, his dream of being acknowledged by Sasuke was more important than the methods. Even this is a ninja's effort! The ends justify the means!

Both his parents were too busy with work and the adults around him pampered him too much, so he had no one to help him realise the simple truth that they weren't justified. That was why Sasuke didn't say anything to him.

"I'm different from my dad!" Boruto said, "Our abilities are different!"

"You certainly are different from your father..." Sasuke said, "Although I hadn't wanted to think you were."

Boruto would have done better to think a little more about the meaning behind Sasuke's words.

"So! How was about it?! How about making me your disciple?!"

"...Alright." Sasuke took in a breath, and nodded seriously. "I'll make you my disciple." It turned out there was something that he had to teach Boruto no matter what.

Boruto's daily life experienced a large upheaval in the following days. Sasuke had a word with Konohamaru and arranged it so that, up until the end of the Chuunin Exams, he and Boruto would train together, man to man. It wouldn't do if a misundestanding took place: Boruto was an obedient pupil when it came to this training. He showed Sasuke an earnestness he'd never show Konohamaru or Naruto. This was partly because he held some feelings of guilt over boasting about the sneakily made Rasengan but, essentially, it was because of Boruto's sincerity.

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In a wasteland, a giant octopus was grappling with two beings. The two beings were ogres. They were the same ogres who Sasuke had grappled with at Kaguya's castle. Why were they here in this world...? There was only one answer: They were here to carry out what Kaguya had left unfinished.

The octopus- a Bijuu called the Eight Tails, hurled a lump of chakra, a Bijuu Bomb towards them. However, the younger ogre caught that attack in his right hand.

"It seems the Chakra Fruit has certainly been scattered around like this," He said.

In his left hand, there was a pill which he ate with a crunch. His chakra swelled, and he wholly absorbed the Bijuu Bomb he'd caught.

"The Divine Tree has been cut down, and Kaguya is nowhere to be seen. It looks like the things of this planet have somehow gained some unnecessary intelligence." He said. "It looks like there's nothing to do but retrieve it back, bit by bit."